The film is in the public domain today; all public-domain video releases are sourced from 16 mm television prints that have faded over the years. Universal Studios (through NBC Universal Television, successor-in-interest to EMKA, Ltd.) owns the original film elements.

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Pearl White (Betty Hutton) is a frustrated factory worker who aspires to become a dramatic actress. She joins a touring theatrical troupe managed by handsome but pompous Mike (John Lund), but fame and fortune elude her because she's unable to suppress her natural rambunctiousness. In desperation, White takes a job at a movie studio, where she promptly finds herself in the middle of a slapstick pie fight. With the help of bombastic director Mac (William Demarest), top-hatted villain portrayer Timmy (Billy De Wolfe), and imperious dramatics coach Julia (Constance Collier), Pearl soon becomes world-famous as the star of such cliffhanging, tied-to-the-railroad-tracks serials as The Perils of Pauline.[2]

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George Marshall (director)
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George E. Marshall was an American actor, screenwriter, producer, film and television director, active through the first six decades of movie history. Relatively few of Marshalls films are well-known today, with Destry Rides Again, The Blue Dahlia, The Sheepman, Marshall co-directed How the West Was Won with John Ford and Henry Hathaway, handling the railroad segment, which featured a celebrated buffalo stampede sequence. While Marshall worked on almost all kinds of films imaginable, he started his career in the silent period doing mostly Westerns. In the 1930s he established a reputation for comedy, directing Laurel, later in his career, he was particularly sought after for comedies. He did around half a dozen films each with Bob Hope and Jerry Lewis, fields, Jackie Gleason, and Will Rogers. Lucille Ball chose George Marshall to direct episodes of her Heres Lucy television series in 1969. Marshall is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, Los Angeles, for his contribution to the film industry, George Marshall has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7048 Hollywood Boulevard. A Message to Garcia Love Under Fire Can This Be Dixie, eight on the Lam Hook, Line & Sinker George Marshall at the Internet Movie Database

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Betty Hutton
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Betty Hutton was an American stage, film, and television actress, comedian, dancer, and singer. Hutton was born Elizabeth June Thornburg in Battle Creek, Michigan and she was the daughter of a railroad foreman, Percy E. Thornburg and his wife, Mabel Lum, while she was very young, her father abandoned the family for another woman. They did not hear of him again until they received a telegram in 1937, along with her older sister Marion, Betty was raised by her alcoholic mother, who took the surname Hutton and was later billed as the actress Sissy Jones. The three started singing in the familys speakeasy when Betty was 3 years old, troubles with the police kept the family on the move. They eventually landed in Detroit, where she attended Foch Intermediate School. On one occasion, when Betty, preceded by an escort, arrived at the premiere of Lets Dance, her mother, arriving with her, quipped. Hutton sang in local bands as a teenager, and at one point visited New York City hoping to perform on Broadway. A few years later, she was scouted by orchestra leader Vincent Lopez, in 1939, she appeared in several musical shorts for Warner Bros. and appeared in a supporting role on Broadway in Panama Hattie and Two for the Show, both produced by Buddy DeSylva. When DeSylva became a producer at Paramount Pictures, Hutton was signed to a role in The Fleets In. Hutton was an instant hit with the movie-going public, Paramount did not immediately promote her to major stardom, however, but did give her second leads in a Mary Martin film musical, Star Spangled Rhythm, and another Lamour film. In 1943, she was given co-star billing with Bob Hope in Lets Face It and this film, The Miracle of Morgans Creek, was delayed by Hays Office objections and Sturges prolific output and was finally released early in 1944. The New York Times named it as one of the 10 Best Films of 1942-1944, critic James Agee noted that the Hays office must have been raped in its sleep to allow the film to be released. On the strength of its success, she signed a contract with the newly formed Capitol Records. Marshall also directed Hutton in the hugely popular The Perils of Pauline in 1947 and she was billed above Fred Astaire in the 1950 musical Lets Dance. Her next screen triumph came in Annie Get Your Gun for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the film, with the leading role retooled for Hutton, was a smash hit, with the biggest critical praise going to Hutton. Among her lesser-known roles were a cameo in Sailor Beware with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, in which she portrayed Deans girlfriend. Altogether, Hutton made 19 films from 1942 to 1952 and her career as a Hollywood star ended due to a contract dispute with Paramount following the Oscar-winning The Greatest Show on Earth and Somebody Loves Me, a biography of singer Blossom Seeley

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John Lund (actor)
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John Lund was an American film actor who is probably best remembered for his role in the film A Foreign Affair, directed by Billy Wilder, and a dual role in Mitchell Leisens To Each His Own. John Lunds father was a Norwegian immigrant and glassblower in Rochester, Lund did not finish high school, and he tried several businesses before settling on advertising in the 1930s. His jobs included being a soda-jerk, carpenter and timekeeper, while working for an advertising agency, he was asked by a friend to appear in an industrial show for the 1939 Worlds Fair. As a result, he served as manager of Railroad on Parade at the fair. Before moving to New York City he had appeared in amateur productions in Rochester. He began acting professionally by appearing on Broadway in William Shakespeares As You Like It and he wrote the book and lyrics for Broadways New Faces of 1943. It was his appearance in the play The Hasty Heart that got him recognized by Hollywood, Lund had the title role in the serial Chaplain Jim on the Blue Network in the early 1940s. Lund also played Johnny Dollar in the radio show Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar and his first film was To Each His Own with Olivia de Havilland for Paramount, in which he played dual roles. A Foreign Affair, in which Lund played romantic lead to both Marlene Dietrich and Jean Arthur, was highly acclaimed but failed to make him a major star, in 1949, in My Friend Irma, Lund is Al, boyfriend of Irma. In 1951 he co-starred with Gene Tierney, Miriam Hopkins, the same year he appeared with Joan Fontaine in the comedy Darling, How Could You. In 1956 he co-starred with Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly in MGMs High Society, by the early 1960s, he appeared in minor films and secondary roles and then retired from the screen in 1963, becoming a successful Hollywood businessman. Lund retired to his house in Coldwater Canyon in the Hollywood Hills in 1963, Lund was married to Marie Charton, who was an actress and a model

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Paramount Pictures
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Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994. In 1916, film producer Adolph Zukor contracted 22 actors and actresses and these fortunate few would become the first movie stars. Paramount Pictures is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America, in 2014, Paramount Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all of its films in digital form only. Paramount is the fifth oldest surviving studio in the world after the French studios Gaumont Film Company and Pathé, followed by the Nordisk Film company. It is the last major film studio headquartered in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles. Paramount Pictures dates its existence from the 1912 founding date of the Famous Players Film Company, hungarian-born founder, Adolph Zukor, who had been an early investor in nickelodeons, saw that movies appealed mainly to working-class immigrants. With partners Daniel Frohman and Charles Frohman he planned to offer feature-length films that would appeal to the class by featuring the leading theatrical players of the time. By mid-1913, Famous Players had completed five films, and Zukor was on his way to success and its first film was Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth, which starred Sarah Bernhardt. That same year, another aspiring producer, Jesse L. Lasky, opened his Lasky Feature Play Company with money borrowed from his brother-in-law, Samuel Goldfish, the Lasky company hired as their first employee a stage director with virtually no film experience, Cecil B. DeMille, who would find a site in Hollywood, near Los Angeles, for his first feature film. Hodkinson and actor, director, producer Hobart Bosworth had started production of a series of Jack London movies, Paramount was the first successful nationwide distributor, until this time, films were sold on a statewide or regional basis which had proved costly to film producers. Also, Famous Players and Lasky were privately owned while Paramount was a corporation, in 1916, Zukor maneuvered a three-way merger of his Famous Players, the Lasky Company, and Paramount. Zukor and Lasky bought Hodkinson out of Paramount, and merged the three companies into one, with only the exhibitor-owned First National as a rival, Famous Players-Lasky and its Paramount Pictures soon dominated the business. It was this system that gave Paramount a leading position in the 1920s and 1930s, the driving force behind Paramounts rise was Zukor. In 1926, Zukor hired independent producer B. P. Schulberg and they purchased the Robert Brunton Studios, a 26-acre facility at 5451 Marathon Street for US$1 million. In 1927, Famous Players-Lasky took the name Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation, three years later, because of the importance of the Publix Theatres, it became Paramount Publix Corporation. In 1928, Paramount began releasing Inkwell Imps, animated cartoons produced by Max, the Fleischers, veterans in the animation industry, were among the few animation producers capable of challenging the prominence of Walt Disney. The Paramount newsreel series Paramount News ran from 1927 to 1957, Paramount was also one of the first Hollywood studios to release what were known at that time as talkies, and in 1929, released their first musical, Innocents of Paris

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Technicolor
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Technicolor is the name applied to a series of color motion picture processes, the first version dating from 1916, and followed by improved versions over several decades. It was the major color process, after Britains Kinemacolor. As the technology matured it was used for less spectacular dramas. Occasionally, even a film noir—such as Leave Her to Heaven or Niagara —was filmed in Technicolor, Technicolor is the trademark for a series of color motion picture processes pioneered by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation, now a division of the French company Technicolor SA. The Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation was founded in Boston in 1914 by Herbert Kalmus, Daniel Frost Comstock, the Tech in the companys name was inspired by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where both Kalmus and Comstock received their undergraduate degrees and were later instructors. Technicolor, Inc. was chartered in Delaware in 1921, most of Technicolors early patents were taken out by Comstock and Wescott, while Kalmus served primarily as the companys president and chief executive officer. The term Technicolor historically has been used to describe at least five concepts, Technicolor, Technicolor process or format, several custom image origination systems used in film production, culminating in the three-strip process in 1932. Technicolor IB printing, a process for making color motion picture prints that allows the use of dyes which are more stable, originally used for printing from color separation negatives photographed on black-and-white film in a special Technicolor camera. This meaning of the name applies to nearly all Wikipedia articles about films made from 1954 onward in which Technicolor is named in the credits, Technicolor originally existed in a two-color system. Because two frames were being exposed at the time, the film had to be photographed and projected at twice the normal speed. Exhibition required a special projector with two apertures, two lenses, and a prism that aligned the two images on the screen. The results were first demonstrated to members of the American Institute of Mining Engineers in New York on February 21,1917, the near-constant need for a technician to adjust the projection alignment doomed this additive color process. Only a few frames of The Gulf Between, showing star Grace Darmond, are known to exist today, convinced that there was no future in additive color processes, Comstock, Wescott, and Kalmus focused their attention on subtractive color processes. This culminated in what would eventually be known as Process 2, the difference was that the two-component negative was now used to produce a subtractive color print. Because the colors were present in the print, no special projection equipment was required. The frames exposed behind the filter were printed on one strip of black-and-white film. After development, each print was toned to a color nearly complementary to that of the filter, orange-red for the green-filtered images, the two prints, made on film stock half the thickness of regular film, were then cemented together back to back to create a projection print. The Toll of the Sea, which debuted on November 26,1922, the second all-color feature in Process 2 Technicolor, Wanderer of the Wasteland, was released in 1924

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Hollywood
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Hollywood is an ethnically diverse, densely populated neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. It is notable as the home of the U. S. film industry, including several of its studios, and its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the industry. Hollywood was a community in 1870 and was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It was consolidated with the city of Los Angeles in 1910, in 1853, one adobe hut stood in Nopalera, named for the Mexican Nopal cactus indigenous to the area. By 1870, an agricultural community flourished, the area was known as the Cahuenga Valley, after the pass in the Santa Monica Mountains immediately to the north. According to the diary of H. J. Whitley, known as the Father of Hollywood, along came a Chinese man in a wagon carrying wood. The man got out of the wagon and bowed, the Chinese man was asked what he was doing and replied, I holly-wood, meaning hauling wood. H. J. Whitley had an epiphany and decided to name his new town Hollywood, Holly would represent England and wood would represent his Scottish heritage. Whitley had already started over 100 towns across the western United States, Whitley arranged to buy the 500-acre E. C. Hurd ranch and disclosed to him his plans for the land. They agreed on a price and Hurd agreed to sell at a later date, before Whitley got off the ground with Hollywood, plans for the new town had spread to General Harrison Gray Otis, Hurds wife, eastern adjacent ranch co-owner Daeida Wilcox, and others. Daeida Wilcox may have learned of the name Hollywood from Ivar Weid, her neighbor in Holly Canyon and she recommended the same name to her husband, Harvey. In August 1887, Wilcox filed with the Los Angeles County Recorders office a deed and parcel map of property he had sold named Hollywood, Wilcox wanted to be the first to record it on a deed. The early real-estate boom busted that year, yet Hollywood began its slow growth. By 1900, the region had a post office, newspaper, hotel, Los Angeles, with a population of 102,479 lay 10 miles east through the vineyards, barley fields, and citrus groves. A single-track streetcar line ran down the middle of Prospect Avenue from it, but service was infrequent, the old citrus fruit-packing house was converted into a livery stable, improving transportation for the inhabitants of Hollywood. The Hollywood Hotel was opened in 1902 by H. J. Whitley who was a president of the Los Pacific Boulevard, having finally acquired the Hurd ranch and subdivided it, Whitley built the hotel to attract land buyers. Flanking the west side of Highland Avenue, the structure fronted on Prospect Avenue, the hotel was to become internationally known and was the center of the civic and social life and home of the stars for many years. Whitleys company developed and sold one of the residential areas

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Silent film
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A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. The silent film era lasted from 1895 to 1936, in silent films for entertainment, the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, mime and title cards which contain a written indication of the plot or key dialogue. During silent films, a pianist, theatre organist, or, in large cities, pianists and organists would either play from sheet music or improvise, an orchestra would play from sheet music. The term silent film is therefore a retronym—that is, a term created to distinguish something retroactively, the early films with sound, starting with The Jazz Singer in 1927, were referred to as talkies, sound films, or talking pictures. A September 2013 report by the United States Library of Congress announced that a total of 70% of American silent feature films are believed to be completely lost, the earliest precursors of film began with image projection through the use of a device known as the magic lantern. This utilized a glass lens, a shutter and a persistent light source, such as a powerful lantern and these slides were originally hand-painted, but still photographs were used later on after the technological advent of photography in the nineteenth century. The invention of a practical photography apparatus preceded cinema by only fifty years, the next significant step towards film creation was the development of an understanding of image movement. Simulations of movement date as far back as to 1828 and only four years after Paul Roget discovered the phenomenon he called Persistence of Vision. This experience was further demonstrated through Rogets introduction of the thaumatrope, the first projected primary proto-movie was made by Eadweard Muybridge between 1877 and 1880. Muybridge set up a row of cameras along a racetrack and timed image exposures to capture the many stages of a horses gallop, the oldest surviving film was created by Louis Le Prince in 1888. It was a film of people walking in Oakwood streets garden. Edison also made a business of selling Kinetograph and Kinetoscope equipment, due to Edisons lack of securing an international patent on his film inventions, similar devices were invented around the world. The Lumière brothers, for example, created the Cinématographe in France, the Cinématographe proved to be a more portable and practical device than both of Edisons as it combined a camera, film processor and projector in one unit. In contrast to Edisons peepshow-style kinetoscope, which one person could watch through a viewer. Their first film, Sortie de lusine Lumière de Lyon, shot in 1894, is considered the first true motion picture, the invention of celluloid film, which was strong and flexible, greatly facilitated the making of motion pictures. This film was 35 mm wide and pulled using four sprocket holes and this doomed the cinematograph, which could only use film with just one sprocket hole. From the very beginnings of film production, the art of motion pictures grew into maturity in the silent era. Silent filmmakers pioneered the art form to the extent that virtually every style, the silent era was also pioneering era from a technical point of view

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Pearl White
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Pearl Fay White was an American stage and film actress. White began her career on the stage at the age of six, dubbed the Queen of the Serials, White was noted for doing the majority of her own stunts in several film serials, most notably in The Perils of Pauline. White was born in Green Ridge, Missouri to Edgar White, a farmer and she had four brothers and sisters. The family later moved to Springfield, Missouri, at age 6, she made her stage debut as Little Eva in Uncle Toms Cabin. When she was 13 years old, White worked as a rider for the circus. She began performing with the Diemer Theater Company, located on Commercial Street and she was soon able to join the company full-time, touring through the American Midwest. White played minor roles for years, when she was spotted by the Powers Film Company in New York. She claimed she had performed in Cuba for a time under the name Miss Mazee. Her travels as a singer took her to South America, where she performed in casinos, in 1910, White had trouble with her throat, and her voice began to fail from the nightly theatrical performances. She made her debut in films that year, starring in a series of one-reel dramas and it was at Powers Films that White honed her skills at physical comedy and stunt work. She became a player with the company and caught the attention of Pathé Frères. In 1910, White was offered a role by Pathé Frères in The Girl From Arizona, White then took a vacation in Europe. Upon her return, she signed with Eclectic Film Company, a subsidiary of Pathé in 1914, Pathé director Louis J. Gasnier offered her the starring role in film serial The Perils of Pauline, based on a story by playwright Charles W. Goddard. The film features the character of Pauline in a story involving considerable action. The Perils of Pauline consisted of twenty, two-reel episodes that were released weekly, the serial proved to be a hit with audiences and made White a major celebrity, and she was soon earning $1,750 a week. She followed this with a bigger box office hit, The Exploits of Elaine. In these serials, White flew airplanes, raced cars, swam across rivers and she did much of her own stunt work until Pathé decided that they could not risk injuring one of their most popular stars. A male stunt double wearing a wig would perform the majority of the dangerous stunts in Whites later films

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Frank Loesser
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Frank Henry Loesser was an American songwriter who wrote the lyrics and music to the Broadway hits Guys and Dolls and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, among others. He won separate Tony Awards for the music and lyrics in both shows, as well as sharing the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the latter. He also wrote songs for films and Tin Pan Alley, many of which have become standards. Loesser was born in New York City to Henry Loesser, a pianist and he grew up in a house on West 107th Street in Manhattan. His father had moved to America to avoid Prussian military service and he came to America and married Berthe, and had a son in 1894, Arthur Loesser. In 1888, Berthes sister Julia arrived in America, Julia and Henry soon fell in love and Julia really loved Arthur, but Berthe sent her to Washington D. C. Berthe died in childbirth and Julia moved back in and married Henry in 1907 and their first child, Grace, was born in December of that year. His parents both prized high intellect and culture and thus Loesser was taught musically in the vein of European composers, but although Henry was a full-time piano teacher, he never taught his son. In a 1914 letter to Franks older half-brother Arthur Loesser, Henry wrote that the 14-year-old Frank could play by ear any tune hes heard, Loesser did not like his fathers refined taste of music and resisted when he wrote his own music and took up the harmonica. He was expelled from Townsend Harris High School, and from there went to City College of New York and he was expelled from the CCNY in 1925 after one year for failing every subject except English and gym. After his father died suddenly in 1926, Loesser was forced to work in order to support his family. After his many jobs, he decided that he wanted to write in Tin Pan Alley. His first song credit is listed as In Love with the Memory of You, with music by William Schuman, Loessers early lyrics included two hit songs of 1934, Junk Man and I Wish I Were Twins. However, they apparently did not help his reputation, and in later years, after a year, Feist had not published any of them. He fared only slightly better collaborating with the classical composer William Schuman, selling one song. Loesser described his days of learning the songwriting craft as having a rendezvous with failure. But while he dabbled in other trades, he returned to the music business. The Back Drop turned out to have some substantial connections, due to his work there he was able to secure his first Broadway musical, The Illustrator’s Show, a 1936 revue written with Back Drop collaborator Irving Actman, lasted only four nights

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Paul Panzer
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Paul Panzer was a German-American silent film actor. He appeared in 333 films between 1905 and 1952, Panzer was best known for playing Koerner/Raymond Owen in The Perils of Pauline. From 1934 through the 1950s he was under contract to Warner Brothers as an extra and he was born in Würzburg, Bavaria, and died in Hollywood, California. Paul Panzer at the Internet Movie Database

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The Perils of Pauline (1914 serial)
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The Perils of Pauline is a 1914 American melodrama film serial shown in weekly installments, featuring Pearl White as the title character. Pauline has often cited as a famous example of a damsel in distress, although some analyses hold that her character was more resourceful. Pauline is menaced by assorted villains, including pirates and Indians, although each episode placed Pauline in a situation that looked sure to result in her imminent death, the end of each installment showed how she was rescued or otherwise escaped the danger. Despite popular associations, Pauline was never tied to railroad tracks in the series, the serial had 20 episodes, the first being three reels, and the rest two reels each. After the original run, it was reshown in theaters a number of times, sometimes in edited, shortened versions, today, The Perils of Pauline is known to exist only in a shortened 9-chapter version, released in Europe in 1916. In 2008 The Perils of Pauline was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. The premise of the story was that Paulines wealthy guardian Mr. Marvin, upon his death, has left her inheritance in the care of his secretary, Mr. Koerner, until the time of her marriage. Pauline wants to wait a while before marrying, as her dream is to go out and have adventures to prepare herself for becoming an author. Mr. Koerner, hoping to keep the money for himself. William Randolph Hearst was involved in plot development and he was also present at the premiere at Loews Broadway Theatre, on 23 March 1914. According to The Truth About Pearl White by Wallace E. Davis, E. A. McManus, head of the Hearst-Vitagraph service organization, was the person who proved how successful a serial could be. George B. Seitz tried to follow the pattern of The Adventures of Kathlyn. After retiring from law enforcement, former FBI Director William J, the Whartons also adapted Flynns experiences into a 20-part spy thriller titled The Eagles Eye, starring Baggot. Surviving chapters of Pauline are noteworthy for their unintentionally funny title cards and dialogue captions, filled with misspellings, poor punctuation, terrible grammar and this happened when Pathé, the theatrical distributor, exported the film to France. The film was recut and adapted for use, and all of the printed captions were translated into French. Later, when the American home-movie industry beckoned, the original English titles had been scrapped and these errors have also been blamed on Louis J. Gasnier, director and supervisor of the production. Gasnier, as explained by Crane Wilbur, made linguistic mistakes that confused the French-speaking crew, in either case, current prints of The Perils of Pauline contain these badly re-translated title cards. Thus, in The Pirates Treasure, Pauline detects a time-bomb and says, in the same episode, she spies one of the quaint locals and observes, Here is an original old man

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Chester Conklin
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Chester Cooper Conklin was an American comedic actor who appeared in over 280 films, about half of them in the silent film era. Conklin, one of three children, grew up in a violent household, when he was eight, his mother was found burned to death in the family garden. Although first judged a suicide, his father, a religious man who hoped his son would be a minister, was eventually charged with murder. Conklin won first prize when he gave a recitation at a community festival, a few years later, he ran away from home after vowing to a friend he would never return, a promise he kept. Heading to Des Moines he found employment as a hotel bellhop, in St. Sennett directed him in his first film, a comedy short titled Hubbys Job. In 1914, Conklin co-starred with Mabel Normand in a series of films, Mabels Strange Predicament, Mabels New Job, Mabels Busy Day, in that same year he appeared in Making a Living, in which Charlie Chaplin made his film debut. He would go on to more than a dozen films with Chaplin while at Keystone. Years later, Conklin would perform with Chaplin in two more films, first in 1936 in Modern Times and in 1940s The Great Dictator. During this time, Chaplin kept Conklin on year-round salary, while at Keystone, Conklin became most famous when he was teamed up with the robust comic Mack Swain to make a series of comedies. Beyond these Ambrose & Walrus comedies, the two appeared together in different films. He also worked at the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation studio. C, Fields, which had nothing to do with the 1914 Chaplin version aside from the title. Paramount Pictures teamed up Conklin and Fields for a series of films between 1927 and 1931. Conklin also appeared in films which appealed to nostalgia for the silent era, such as Hollywood Cavalcade, in Soundies musicals, he appeared with other silent-comedy alumni as The Keystone Kops, as well as on the televised This Is Your Life tribute to Mack Sennett. Conklin was part of Preston Sturges unofficial stock company of actors in the 1940s. In 1957, he was a guest challenger on the TV panel show To Tell The Truth, conklins career hit bottom in the 1950s, and he took work as a department-store Santa Claus to make ends meet. In the 1960s, Conklin was living at the Motion Picture Country Home and Hospital when he fell in love with another patient there, June Gunther. The two got married in Las Vegas in 1965, his marriage and her fourth, and set up housekeeping in Van Nuys, California, the groom was seventy-nine. Conklin made one last film after that, a Western comedy, A Big Hand for the Little Lady, Chester Conklin died in Autumn 1971 in California at the age of 85

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Hank Mann
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Hank Mann was a comedian and silent screen star who was the last surviving member of the Keystone Cops. According to fellow actor and original member of the ensemble Edgar Kennedy, Hank Mann was born in Russia but emigrated to New York City with his parents and siblings in 1891. One of Manns most famous bits was as the door man in the Three Stooges short Men in Black. Later in his career he continued to play bit parts in TV comedies, although he never really retired completely from the film industry, his later years were spent as an apartment building manager with his wife, Dolly, in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles. Hank Mann died on November 25,1971, in South Pasadena and he is interred in the Hall of David Mausoleum in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California. For his contribution to the picture industry, Hank Mann has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6300 Hollywood Boulevard. Hank Mann at the Internet Movie Database Hank Mann at Find a Grave

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Snub Pollard
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Harry Snub Pollard was an Australian-born vaudevillian, who became a silent film comedian in Hollywood, popular in the 1920s. Born Harold Fraser, in Melbourne, Australia on 9 November 1889, like many of the actors in the popular juvenile company, he adopted Pollard as his stage name. The company ran several highly successful professional childrens troupes that traveled Australia and New Zealand in the late nineteenth, in 1908, Harry Pollard joined the company tour to North America. After the completion of the tour, he returned to the US, by 1915 he was regularly appearing in un-credited roles in movies, for example Charles Epting notes that Pollard can clearly be seen in Chaplins 1915 short By the Sea. In later years, Pollard claimed Hal Roach had discovered him while he was performing on stage in Los Angeles, Pollard played supporting roles in the early films of Harold Lloyd and Bebe Daniels. The long-faced Pollard sported a Kaiser Wilhelm mustache turned upside-down, this became his trademark, lloyds producer, Hal Roach, gave Pollard his own starring series of one- and two-reel shorts. The most famous is 1923s Its a Gift, in which he plays an inventor of many Rube Goldberg-like contraptions, in early 1923, shortly after his second marriage, Pollard returned with his wife Elizabeth to see his relations in Australia. His visit attracted considerable attention, and he appeared again in several theatres to speak about the picture business. On his return to the US, he left Roach and joined the low-budget Weiss Brothers studio in 1926, there he co-starred with Marvin Loback as a poor mans version of Laurel and Hardy, copying that teams plots and gags. In later years, Pollard claimed the great depression wiped out his investments, however, in the 1930s, he played small parts in talking comedies, and was featured as comic relief in B westerns. Pollards silent-comedy credentials guaranteed him work in slapstick revivals and he appeared with other film veterans in Hollywood Cavalcade, The Perils of Pauline, and Man of a Thousand Faces. He also appeared regularly as a player in Columbia Pictures two-reel comedies of the mid-1940s. Forsaking his familiar mustache, he landed much steadier work as a bit player, in Singin in the Rain he receives the umbrella of Gene Kelly after his famous Singin in the Rain scene. In Frank Capras Pocketful of Miracles, Pollard plays a Broadway beggar and his last film, Twist Around the Clock, shows him wordlessly reacting to a curvaceous woman dancing energetically. Snub Pollard died of cancer on 19 January 1962, aged 72 and his interment was at Forest Lawn Memorial Park. For his contributions to motion pictures, Pollard has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6415½ Hollywood Boulevard, Snub Pollard at the Internet Movie Database Snub Pollard at Golden Silents Snub Pollard at Find a Grave

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James Finlayson (actor)
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James Finlayson was a Scottish actor who worked in both silent and sound comedies. Born in Larbert, Stirlingshire, Scotland to Alexander and Isabella Finlayson, after the death of both his parents, he emigrated to the U. S. in 1911 at the age of 24 with his brother Robert. He married Emily Cora Gilbert, an American citizen from Iowa, in 1919, as part of John Clydes company, he played the part of Jamie Ratcliffe in Jeanie Deans at the Theatre Royal in Edinburgh in 1910. The remarkable thing is that he managed to do both at the same time. Arriving in Los Angeles in 1916, he work at L-KO. In October 1919, he signed a contract with the Mack Sennett Comedies Corporation and he starred in numerous Sennett-produced comedies, most notably as one of the original Keystone Kops. As a freelance actor late in his career, he made some of his films in the UK. He played bit parts in such as Foreign Correspondent, To Be or Not to Be. However, Finlayson is most remembered for his work at the Hal Roach Studios, in the mid-1920s, Roach attempted to make a top-billed star out of Finlayson, but the effort was unfocused and he never caught on. Yet so memorable an antagonist was he to The Boys that even with his diminished billing, altogether, Finlayson played roles in 33 Laurel and Hardy films, usually as a villain or an antagonist, notably in the celebrated films Big Business and Way Out West. He also starred alongside Stan Laurel in 19 films and opposite Oliver Hardy in five films before Laurel and he appeared in dozens of Roach Studio films, with Charley Chase, Glenn Tryon, Snub Pollard, and Ben Turpin. He was also in several Our Gang shorts, notably Mush and Milk, in which he, english actress Stephanie Insall and Finlayson regularly took breakfast together and had for the past 20 years. However, on the morning of 13 July 1953, Finlayson did not turn up at the usual time, knowing that he had been ill from flu recently, Miss Insall went to his home where she discovered his body. Finlayson had died of a heart attack, the California Death Index lists that James Henderson Finlayson, b.27 Aug 1887, died 9 Oct 1953, Los Angeles Co, the death date and death location in the article are incorrect. The California Death Index can be viewed at ancestry. com or rootsweb. com, also, his memorial at findagrave. com has the correct death info. One of Finlaysons trademarks was a drawn out dohhhhhhh, Finlayson had used the term as a minced oath to stand in for the word Damn. This would later inspire Dan Castellaneta, the actor of Homer Simpson. During the voice recording session for a Tracey Ullman Show short and he rendered it as a drawn out dohhhhhhh

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Universal Pictures
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Universal Pictures is an American film studio owned by Comcast through the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal. The company was founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley and its studios are located in Universal City, California, and its corporate offices are located in New York City. Universal Pictures is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America and is one of Hollywoods Big Six studios. Universal Studios was founded by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, Robert H. Cochrane, one story has Laemmle watching a box office for hours, counting patrons and calculating the days takings. Within weeks of his Chicago trip, Laemmle gave up dry goods to buy the first several nickelodeons, for Laemmle and other such entrepreneurs, the creation in 1908 of the Edison-backed Motion Picture Trust meant that exhibitors were expected to pay fees for Trust-produced films they showed. Soon, Laemmle and other disgruntled nickelodeon owners decided to avoid paying Edison by producing their own pictures, in June 1909, Laemmle started the Yankee Film Company with partners Abe Stern and Julius Stern. Laemmle broke with Edisons custom of refusing to give billing and screen credits to performers, by naming the movie stars, he attracted many of the leading players of the time, contributing to the creation of the star system. In 1910, he promoted Florence Lawrence, formerly known as The Biograph Girl, the Universal Film Manufacturing Company was incorporated in New York on April 30,1912. Laemmle, who emerged as president in July 1912, was the figure in the partnership with Dintenfass, Baumann, Kessel, Powers, Swanson, Horsley. Eventually all would be out by Laemmle. Following the westward trend of the industry, by the end of 1912 the company was focusing its efforts in the Hollywood area. On March 15,1915, Laemmle opened the worlds largest motion picture production facility, Universal City Studios, studio management became the third facet of Universals operations, with the studio incorporated as a distinct subsidiary organization. Unlike other movie moguls, Laemmle opened his studio to tourists, Universal became the largest studio in Hollywood, and remained so for a decade. However, it sought an audience mostly in towns, producing mostly inexpensive melodramas, westerns. In its early years Universal released three brands of feature films — Red Feather, low-budget programmers, Bluebird, more ambitious productions, and Jewel, their prestige motion pictures. Directors included Jack Conway, John Ford, Rex Ingram, Robert Z. Leonard, George Marshall and Lois Weber, despite Laemmles role as an innovator, he was an extremely cautious studio chief. Unlike rivals Adolph Zukor, William Fox, and Marcus Loew and he also financed all of his own films, refusing to take on debt. Character actor Lon Chaney became a card for Universal in the 1920s

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William Demarest
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Carl William Demarest was an American character actor, known for playing Uncle Charley in My Three Sons. A veteran of World War I, Demarest became a film and television actor, appearing in over 140 films, beginning in 1926. He frequently played crusty but good-hearted roles, carl William Demarest was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, the son of Samuel and Wilhelmina Demarest. They moved to New Bridge, a hamlet in Bergen County, New Jersey, Demarest served in the United States Army during World War I. Demarest started in business working in vaudeville, appearing with his wife Estelle Collette as Demarest and Colette. Demarest worked regularly with director Preston Sturges, becoming part of a troupe of actors that Sturges repeatedly cast in his films. He appeared in ten films written by Sturges, eight of which were under his direction, including The Lady Eve, Sullivans Travels, Demarest appeared with veteran western film star Roscoe Ates in the 1958 episode And the Desert Shall Blossom of CBSs Alfred Hitchcock Presents. In the story line, Ates and Demarest appear as old timers living in the Nevada desert. The local sheriff, played by Ben Johnson, appears with an eviction notice, in 1959, Demarest was named the lead actor of the 18-week sitcom Love and Marriage on NBC in the 1959–1960 season. Demarest played William Harris, the owner of a music company who refuses to handle popular rock and roll music. Joining Demarest on the series were Jeanne Bal, Murray Hamilton and his most famous television role was in the ABC and then CBS sitcom My Three Sons from 1965 to 1972, playing Uncle Charley OCasey. He replaced William Frawley, whose failing health had made procuring insurance impossible, Demarest had worked with Fred MacMurray previously in the films Hands Across the Table, Pardon My Past, On Our Merry Way, and The Far Horizons and was a personal friend of MacMurray. Also, he worked with Irene Dunne in Never a Dull Moment, Demarest received a single Academy Award nomination, for his supporting role in The Jolson Story, playing Al Jolsons fictional mentor. He had previously shared the screen with the real Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer, Demarest also received an Emmy nomination for the 1968–1969 season of My Three Sons as Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Role. Demarest has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to motion pictures, in 1998, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars was dedicated to him. His first wife was his vaudeville partner Estelle Collette, born Esther Zichlin, Demarest helped raise her daughter from her earlier marriage to poet and novelist Samuel Gordon, author Phyllis Gordon Demarest. Demarests favorite recreations were hunting, fishing, golf, and playing the cello and he died in Palm Springs, California and was interred in Glendales Forest Lawn Memorial Park. At the time of his death, he was suffering from prostate cancer, a Night at Coffee Dans as M. C

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Billy De Wolfe
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Billy De Wolfe was an American character actor. He was active in films from the mid-1940s until his death in 1974, born William Andrew Jones in the Wollaston neighborhood of Quincy, Massachusetts, DeWolfe was the son of a Welsh bookbinder who encouraged him to become a Baptist minister. Instead, Billy developed an interest in the theatre and he found work as an usher before becoming a dancer with the Jimmy OConnor Band. It was at point that he changed his last name to De Wolfe. He went on to tour Europe with a team, appearing in a London revue called Revels in Rhythm. At some point during World War II, he served in the United States Navy until he was discharged for medical reasons in 1944 and he signed with Paramount Pictures in 1943 and became a reliable comedian. His pencil-mustached and often pompous character contrasted humorously with the romantic leads. His best-known role of his Paramount tenure is probably the ham actor-turned-silent movie villain in the 1947 fictionalized Pearl White biography The Perils of Pauline, De Wolfe became known for his portrayal of fussy, petty men. A New York Times review of his 1948 film Isnt It Romantic, strongly criticized the way the other actors material limited their performances, contrasting their performances with his, But Mr. De Wolfe is nothing daunted. He rips up the place with great delight, the material is at his mercy. After his Paramount contract lapsed, DeWolfe returned to the stage and he appeared in the revue John Murray Andersons Almanac in 1953 and 1954, and starred in the last edition of the Ziegfeld Follies, in 1957. He appeared regularly in guest roles on television, including the first two episodes of NBCs The Imogene Coca Show and he reappeared as Mr. Jarvis on CBSs The Doris Day Show, and co-starred with Larry Storch in a short-lived TV sitcom, The Queen and I. He often appeared on shows and in TV commercials, doing his Mrs. Murgatroyd drag routine. Wearing a hat and a shawl, DeWolfe would claim to be an expert on romance, generations of TV viewers know Billy DeWolfe only by his voice, his is the voice of the inept magician Professor Hinkle in the 1969 Christmas special Frosty the Snowman. DeWolfe gave the role his usual fussy diction, Mess-y, mess-y, mess-y and he was a good friend of Doris Day until his death, from the time of their meeting during the filming of Tea for Two, also appearing with Day in Lullaby of Broadway. In 1972, DeWolfe was scheduled to return to Broadway portraying Madame Lucy in the revival of Irene starring Debbie Reynolds, Monte Markham, Ruth Warrick. However, during the stages of rehearsals, DeWolfe learned that he was ill with cancer and was replaced by George S. Irving. Later that year, he recorded a role for the New York cast album of Free to Be

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Constance Collier
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Constance Collier was an English stage and film actress and acting coach. In 1893, at the age of 15, she joined the Gaiety Girls and she was a very beautiful woman and soon became so tall that she towered over all the other dancers. In addition, she had a personality and considerable determination. Famed for his productions, Tree and his designer, Percy Macquoid. Later, Constance Collier commented, There is only a mention in the play of Cleopatra appearing as the goddess Isis, Tree elaborated this into a great tableau. Constance Collier was now established as a popular and distinguished actress, in January 1908, she starred with Beerbohm Tree at His Majestys Theatre in J. Comyns new play The Mystery of Edwin Drood, based on Charles Dickenss unfinished novel of the same name. Later that year, she made the first of several tours of the United States, in 1905, Collier married handsome English actor Julian Boyle, a sort of Clark Gable before Clark Gable. They performed together for years until his death in 1918 in New York from influenza. No children were born from the marriage, in the early 1920s, she established a close friendship with Ivor Novello, who was then a young, handsome actor. His first play, The Rat, was written in collaboration with her in 1924 and she also appeared in several plays with him, including the British version of the American success, The Firebrand by Edwin Justus Mayer. In 1935, upon her arrival in Hollywood, Luise Rainer hired Collier to improve Rainers theatre acting and English, in the late 1920s Collier relocated to Hollywood where she became a voice coach and teacher in diction. This was during the changeover from silent films to sound. Her most famous pupil was arguably Colleen Moore, film historian Kevin Brownlow interviewed Moore for the series Hollywood about the silent film era. Moore recounted that upon taking voice lessons from a famous lady the teacher asked is it true that you make 10,000 dollars a week. Moore replied, no maam, I make 12,500 a week, the teacher Moore was referring to was Constance Collier. Collier nevertheless maintained ties to Broadway and would appear in plays in the 1930s. In 1932 Collier starred as Carlotta Vance in the production of George S. Kaufman. The role was played in the 1933 film version by Marie Dressler and she appeared in the films Stage Door, Mitchell Leisens Kitty, Perils of Pauline with Betty Hutton, Alfred Hitchcocks Rope and Otto Premingers Whirlpool

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Frank Faylen
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Frank Faylen was an American film and television actor. Born Frank Ruf in St. Louis, Missouri, he began his career as an infant appearing with his vaudeville-performing parents on stage. The family lived on a showboat, after traveling with his showbisiness parents through his childhood, Faylen became a stage actor at 18, and eventually began working in films in the 1930s. He began playing a number of bit parts for Warner Bros. then freelanced for other studios in gradually larger character roles. He appeared as Walt Disneys musical conductor in The Reluctant Dragon, Faylen and Laurel and Hardy supporting player Charlie Hall were teamed briefly by Monogram Pictures. Faylens breakthrough came in 1945, where he was cast as Bim, in the following year, he played Ernie Bishop, the friendly taxi driver in Frank Capras 1946 film Its a Wonderful Life. Faylens career also stretched to television, playing long-suffering grocer Herbert T. Gillis on the 1950s-60s television sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, in 1968, he had a small part in the Barbra Streisand film Funny Girl. Faylen appeared in almost 200 films and he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Faylen was married to Carol Hughes, an actress and he died from pneumonia in 1985. He was interred in the San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Mission Hills, Los Angeles and his two daughters, Catherine and Carol, are retired actresses. Catherine Kay Faylen was Regis Philbins first wife, Frank Faylen at the Internet Movie Database Frank Faylen at Find a Grave

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William Farnum
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William Farnum was an American stage and film actor. One of three brothers, Farnum grew up in a family of actors and he made his acting debut at the age of ten in Richmond, Virginia in a production of Julius Caesar, with Edwin Booth playing the title character. His first major success was as the character of Ben-Hur in 1900 though replacing the original actor Edward Morgan who premiered the character in 1899. In The Spoilers in 1914, Farnum and Tom Santschi staged a classic movie fight which lasted for a full reel, in 1930, Farnum and Santschi coached Gary Cooper and William Boyd in the fight scene for the 1930 version of The Spoilers. Other actors influenced by the Farnum/Santschi scene were Milton Sills and Noah Beery in 1923 and Randolph Scott, from 1915 to 1925, Farnum devoted his life to motion pictures. While becoming one of the biggest sensations in Hollywood, he became one of the highest-paid actors. Farnums silent pictures, the western Drag Harlan and the drama-adventure If I Were King survive from his years contracted to Fox Films, married three times, Farnum had a daughter, Sara Adele, with his second wife, Olive White. He had three children with his wife, Isabelle, named, Isabelle, Elizabeth and William Farnum Jr. Farnum died from uremia. He is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California, on February 8,1960, Farnum received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the motion pictures industry at 6322 Hollywood Boulevard. He was the brother of major film actor Dustin Farnum. He had another brother, Marshall Farnum, who was a silent film director who died in 1917, William Farnum and daughter Adele Farnum

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Creighton Hale
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Creighton Hale was an Irish-American theatre, film, and television actor whose career extended more than a half-century, from the early 1900s to the end of the 1950s. Born Patrick Fitzgerald in County Cork, Ireland, he was educated in Dublin and London and he immigrated to America in his early twenties, traveling with a troupe of actors. While starring in Charles Frohmans Broadway production of Indian Summer, Hale was spotted by a representative of the Pathe Film Company and he eventually became known professionally as Creighton Hale, although the derivation of those names remains unknown. His first movie was The Exploits of Elaine in 1914 and he starred in hit films such as Way Down East, Orphans of the Storm, and The Cat and the Canary. It was generally thought that in 1923 Hale starred in an early pornographic stag film On the Beach, in the film, three nude women agree to have sex with him, but only through a hole in the fence. However, photographs of the scene show that the man in the film is not Hale. However, when talkies came about, his career declined and he made several appearances in Hal Roachs Our Gang series, and also played unbilled bits in major talking films such as Larceny, Inc. His two sons, Creighton Hale Jr. and Robert Lowe Hale, from his first marriage to Victoire Lowe were adopted by Lowes second husband, after his divorce, Hale married Kathleen Bering in Los Angeles in 1931. He died in the Los Angeles County city of South Pasadena at age 83 and was buried at Duncans Mills Cemetery in Northern California, Creighton Hale at the Internet Movie Database Creighton Hale at the Internet Broadway Database Creighton Hale at Find a Grave

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Bert Roach
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Bert Roach was an American film actor. He appeared in 327 films between 1914 and 1951 and he was born in Washington, D. C. and died in Los Angeles, California. He was married to Gladys Marie Johnson, bert Roach at the Internet Movie Database

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Heinie Conklin
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Heinie Conklin was an American actor of the silent film era, who appeared in nearly 400 films. Claiming to be one of the original Keystone Kops, Conklins silent screen makeup consisted of heavy eyebrow lining and he was born in San Francisco, California. In areas where anti-German sentiments still ran high during the post-World War I era, one of Conklins first talking pictures was All Quiet on the Western Front as a hospital patient. For the rest of his career in talking pictures, he had roles in 2-reelers which starred The Three Stooges, Andy Clyde, Hugh Herbert. Conklins last billed movie was Abbott and Costello meet the Keystone Kops and he died in Hollywood, California fifteen days after his seventy-third birthday. Conklins period at Keystone was contemporary with that of Chester Conklin, the two Conklins were not related

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Capitol Records
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Capitol Records, LLC is an American record label which operates as a division of the Capitol Music Group. The label was founded as the first West Coast-based record label in the United States in 1942 by three industry insiders named Johnny Mercer, Buddy DeSylva and Glenn Wallichs, in 1955, the label was acquired by the British music conglomerate EMI as its North American subsidiary. EMI was later acquired by Universal Music Group in 2012 and was merged with the company in 2013, making Capitol Records, Capitol Records circular headquarter building located in Los Angeles is a recognized landmark of California. Mercer first raised the idea of starting a company while golfing with Harold Arlen. By 1941, Mercer was a songwriter and a singer with multiple successful releases. Mercer next suggested the idea to Wallichs while visiting his record store, Wallichs expressed interest in the idea and the pair negotiated an agreement whereby Mercer would run the company and identify their artists, while Wallichs managed the business side. On February 2,1942, Mercer and Wallichs met with DeSylva at a Hollywood restaurant to inquire about the possibility of investment of the company from Paramount Pictures, while DeSylva declined the proposal, he handed the pair a check worth $15,000. On March 27,1942, the three men incorporated as Liberty Records, in May 1942, the application was amended to change the companys name to Capitol Records. On April 6,1942, Mercer supervised Capitols first recording session where Martha Tilton recorded the song Moon Dreams, on May 5, Bobby Sherwood and his orchestra recorded two tracks in the studio. On May 21, Freddie Slack and his orchestra recorded three tracks in the studio, one with the orchestra, one with Ella Mae Morse called Cow-Cow Boogie, on June 4,1942, Capitol opened its first office in a second-floor room south of Sunset Boulevard. On that same day, Wallichs presented the companys first free record to Los Angeles disc jockey Peter Potter, on June 5,1942, Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra recorded four songs at the studio. On June 12, the recorded five more songs in the studio. On June 11, Tex Ritter recorded Jingle Jangle Jingle and Goodbye My Little Cherokee for his first Capitol recording session, and the songs formed Capitols 110th produced record. 133 - Get On Board Little Chillun - July 31,1942 - is a Freddie Slack/Ella Mae Morse/Mellowaires recording that might be the first rock n roll record and she has sometimes been called the first rock n roll singer. A good example is her 1942 recording of song which, with strong gospel, blues, boogie. Bone Walker recorded Mean Old World a pioneering example of the use of electric guitar. The earliest recording artists included co-owner Mercer, Whiteman, Tilton, Morse, Margaret Whiting, Jo Stafford, the Pied Pipers, Johnnie Johnston, Tex Ritter, Capitols first gold single was Morses Cow Cow Boogie in 1942. Capitols first album was Capitol Presents Songs By Johnny Mercer, a three 78-rpm disc set with recordings by Mercer, Stafford and the Pied Pipers, all with Westons Orchestra

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The Perils of Pauline (1933 serial)
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The Perils of Pauline is a 1933 American Pre-Code film serial, and sound film remake, of the Pathé original. The 12-chapter cliffhanger was produced by Universal Studios, Evalyn Knapp, herself a graduate of Pathé silent short subjects, starred as the heroine, Pauline Hargraves. Historic newsreel footage of the 1930 flight of the Dornier Do X seaplane is featured in chapter eight, each episode in the serial is approximately 20 minutes long. The first one to two minutes of each episode are taken up with a sequence and an intertitle describing the action from the previous serial. This is followed by three minutes of the previous serials closing moments. Pauline Hargraves is the daughter of Professor Hargraves, a noted doctor of chemistry. Unfortunately, the villainous Asian warlord, Dr. Bashan, is also after the disk, along with his right-hand-man and assassin, in The Guns of Doom, the Hargraves party arrives in China, where the disk is in the Tsai Tsin temple. Civil war has broken out, and the city is under attack, Dr. Hargraves and Dodge go to the temple, followed by Fang and his gang of thugs. Pauline goes to warn her father hes being followed, but is attacked by Fang, shes rescued by Robert Warde, an American railroad engineer. As shells fall all around, Pauline and Warde go to the temple, but only half the disk exists, a map shows where the other half may be found. Dr. Bashan kidnaps Pauline while Warde takes her father to a hotel. Bashan takes the disk, but Pauling escapes, Bashan takes a ship to Sarawak, where the map shows the rest of the disk is located. The Hargraves party follows Bashan in The Typhoon of Terror, narrowly escaping a government gunboat which fires on them, Bashans ship is caught in a hurricane, allowing the Hargraves ship to catch up. The disk is retrieved, although Pauline is nearly washed overboard, Dr. Bashan is locked in a cabin. In The Leopard Leaps, the Hargraves team arrive in Sarawak, the ships captain frees Dr. Bashan, and Bashan pursues the Hargaves in a faster ship. Bashan catches up to the Hargraves party at night, and Fang attempts to kill Pauline, but a prowling leopard attacks him and he is captured. Fang escapes into alligator-infested waters and is presumed dead—but again escapes to safety, Pauline and Warde discover the Egyptian temple and retrieve the other half of the disk in Trapped By the Enemy. Dr. Bashan, accompanied by a band of natives, captures everyone but Warde

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Evalyn Knapp
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Evalyn Knapp was an American film actress of the late 1920s, 1930s and into the 1940s. She was a leading B-movie serial actress in the 1930s and she was the younger sister of the orchestra leader Orville Knapp. Knapp was born in 1906 in Kansas City, Missouri, as Evelyn Pauline Knapp and she started acting in silent films, her first role being in the 1929 film, At The Dentists. She was cast as leading lady in Smart Money in 1931, in 1932, Knapp was one of fourteen girls, along with Ginger Rogers and Gloria Stuart, selected as WAMPAS Baby Stars. Knapp achieved success in cliffhanger serials, which were popular at the time and she played the title character in the 1933 serial The Perils of Pauline. She also played in Corruption that year opposite Preston Foster, one of her better known film roles was opposite Ken Maynard in the 1934 film In Old Santa Fe. She worked through 1941, but her career slowed afterward, in 1943, she played her last role, uncredited, in Two Weeks To Live, one of the Lum and Abner films starring Chester Lauck and Norris Goff. In 1931 Evalyn Knapp spent several months in the hospital after she fell from a cliff during a hike with her brother, several vertebrae were fractured and it was necessary for her to learn to walk again, step by step. Her brother, orchestra Leader, Orville Knapp, died in a crash in 1936. Her brother was married to film actress Gloria Grafton and she married a physician, Dr. George A. Snyder, in 1934. Dr Snyder gave her a yacht as a gift and she became one of Hollywoods leading yachtswomen. Following her retirement, she concentrated on her family and she and Snyder remained married until his death in 1977. Knapp died from undisclosed causes on June 12,1981, five days before her 75th birthday, in Los Angeles, Evelyn Knapp at AllMovie Evalyn Knapp at Find a Grave

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The Perils of Pauline (1967 film)
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The Perils of Pauline is a 1967 American comedy film based on the movie serial of the same name. The pilot did not find a sponsor or a network, extra footage for this was shot in December 1966. Universals home-movie company, Castle Films, turned it back into a serial, the movie enjoyed neither the commercial nor critical success of the earlier versions of The Perils of Pauline. The film opens on a winters night at a foundling home. A young boy out to take in milk bottles, when he sees a baby in a basket on the ground. The babys name is Pauline, and the boy promises to protect her no matter what, soon, it is time for Pauline to get adopted. George tries numerous attempts to prevent that from happening as she gets older and his last stunt however makes Pauline suitable for her new parents. Mrs. Carruthers, the owner of the home. Her new parents tell their son to get Paulines bags, at the same time, Pauline remembers her toothbrush and goes back to the car to retrieve it. George seizes the opportunity to prevent Pauline from living with her new family and it races away, and everyone begins to chase after it. The opening credits are displayed as the car careens down the street, all seems well until the car reaches a train crossing. Pauline and her brother to be arent hurt, but her parents to be do not want her anymore, Mrs. Carruthers finds out that George pulled the hand brake, and sends him packing. Later that night as George is about to leave, Pauline wants to come with him and he objects, and says that when he makes his fortune, he will come back for her. Seven years later, Pauline finds work as a teacher for a young African prince, however, Benji sees Pauline as being engaged to him. She disregards his advances, and a chase ensues, ultimately leading Pauline to dangle precariously over a pool of sharks, while this is happening, we see George go back to the foundling home, only to see it getting demolished. Mrs. Carruthers is glad to see George again, and is surprised to learn that his affection for Pauline was genuine, George then goes to Prince Benjis palace to find Pauline. Back at the palace, the father comes just in time. Later, Benji puts his father in a prison

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Pat Boone
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Charles Eugene Pat Boone is an American singer, composer, actor, writer, television personality, motivational speaker, and spokesman. He was a pop singer in the United States during the 1950s. He sold over 45 million records, had 38 top-40 hits, Boone still holds the Billboard record for spending 220 consecutive weeks on the charts with one or more songs each week. At the age of 23, he began hosting a half-hour ABC variety television series, The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom, many musical performers, including Edie Adams, Andy Williams, Pearl Bailey, and Johnny Mathis, made appearances on the show. His cover versions of rhythm and blues hits had an effect on the development of the broad popularity of rock. Elvis Presley was the act for a 1955 Pat Boone show in Cleveland. As an author, Boone had a bestseller in the 1950s. In the 1960s, he focused on music and is a member of the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. He continues to perform and speak as a speaker, a television personality. Boone was born in Jacksonville, Florida, the son of Margaret Virginia, Boone was reared primarily in Nashville, Tennessee, a place he still visits. His family moved to Nashville from Florida when Boone was two years old and he attended and graduated in 1952 from David Lipscomb High School in Nashville. His younger brother, whose name is Nick Todd, was also a pop singer in the 1950s and is now a church music leader. In a 2007 interview on The 700 Club, Boone claimed that he is the grandson of the American pioneer Daniel Boone. He is a cousin of two stars of Western television series, Richard Boone of CBSs Have Gun – Will Travel and Randy Boone, of NBCs The Virginian, pats siblings were notified and have acknowledged that the research one by The Boone Society is true. In November 1953, when he was 19 years old, Boone married Shirley Lee Foley, daughter of country music great Red Foley and his wife and they have four daughters, Cheryl Lynn, Linda Lee, Deborah Ann, and Laura Gene. Starting in the late 1950s, Boone and his family were residents of Leonia, in college, he primarily attended David Lipscomb College, later Lipscomb University, in Nashville. He graduated in 1958 from Columbia University School of General Studies magna cum laude and also attended North Texas State University, now known as the University of North Texas, in Denton and he began recording in 1954 for Republic Records. His 1955 version of Fats Dominos Aint That a Shame was a hit and this set the stage for the early part of Boones career, which focused on covering R&B songs by black artists for a white American market

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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database

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Turner Classic Movies
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Turner Classic Movies is an American movie-oriented basic cable and satellite television network owned by the Turner Broadcasting System subsidiary of Time Warner. TCM is headquartered at the Techwood Campus in Atlanta, Georgias Midtown business district, historically, the channels programming consisted mainly of featured classic theatrically released feature films from the Turner Entertainment film library – which comprises films from Warner Bros. However, TCM now has licensing deals with other Hollywood film studios as well as its Time Warner sister company, Warner Bros. and occasionally shows more recent films. The channel is available in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Latin America, France, Spain, Nordic countries, Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific. In 1986, eight years before the launch of Turner Classic Movies, concerns over Turner Entertainments corporate debt load resulted in Turner selling the studio that October back to Kirk Kerkorian, from whom Turner had purchased the studio less than a year before. As part of the deal, Turner Entertainment retained ownership of MGMs library of films released up to May 9,1986, Turner Broadcasting System was split into two companies, Turner Broadcasting System and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and reincorporated as MGM/UA Communications Co. The film library of Turner Entertainment would serve as the form of programming for TCM upon the networks launch. After the library was acquired, MGM/UA signed a deal with Turner to continue distributing the pre-May 1986 MGM and to begin distributing the pre-1950 Warner Bros. film libraries for video release. Turner Classic Movies debuted on April 14,1994, at 6,00 p. m. Eastern Time, the date and time were chosen for their historical significance as the exact centennial anniversary of the first public movie showing in New York City. The first movie broadcast on TCM was the 1939 film Gone with the Wind, at the time of its launch, TCM was available to approximately one million cable television subscribers. AMC had broadened its content to feature colorized and more recent films by 2002. In the early 90s AMC abandoned its format, leaving TCM as the only movie-oriented cable channel to devote its programming entirely to classic films without commercial interruption. In 1996, Turner Broadcasting System merged with Time Warner, which besides placing Turner Classic Movies, in March 1999, MGM paid Warner Bros. and gave up the home video rights to the MGM/UA films owned by Turner to Warner Home Video. In 2008, TCM won a Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting, in April 2010, Turner Classic Movies held the first TCM Classic Film Festival, an event – now held annually – at the Graumans Chinese Theater and the Graumans Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. In 2007, some of the films featured on TCM were made available for streaming on TCMs website. The networks programming season runs from February until the following March of each year when a retrospective of Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated movies is shown, called 31 Days of Oscar. Turner Classic Movies presents many of its features in their original aspect ratio whenever possible – widescreen films broadcast on TCM are letterboxed on the standard definition feed. TCM also regularly presents widescreen presentations of films not available in the format on any video release

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AllMovie
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AllMovie is an online guide service website with information about films, television programs, and screen actors. As of 2013, AllMovie. com and the AllMovie consumer brand are owned by All Media Network, AllMovie was founded by popular-culture archivist Michael Erlewine, who also founded AllMusic and AllGame. The AllMovie database was licensed to tens of thousands of distributors and retailers for point-of-sale systems, websites, the AllMovie database is comprehensive, including basic product information, cast and production credits, plot synopsis, professional reviews, biographies, relational links and more. AllMovie data was accessed on the web at the AllMovie. com website and it was also available via the AMG LASSO media recognition service, which can automatically recognize DVDs. In late 2007, Macrovision acquired AMG for a reported $72 million, the AMG consumer facing web properties AllMusic. com, AllMovie. com and AllGame. com were sold by Rovi in August 2013 to All Media Network, LLC. The buyers also include the founders of SideReel and Ackrell Capital investor Mike Ackrell. All Media Network offices are located in San Francisco, California, AllMusic AllGame SideReel All Media Network Official website

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Internet Archive
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The Internet Archive is a San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of universal access to all knowledge. As of October 2016, its collection topped 15 petabytes, in addition to its archiving function, the Archive is an activist organization, advocating for a free and open Internet. Its web archive, the Wayback Machine, contains over 150 billion web captures, the Archive also oversees one of the worlds largest book digitization projects. Founded by Brewster Kahle in May 1996, the Archive is a 501 nonprofit operating in the United States. It has a budget of $10 million, derived from a variety of sources, revenue from its Web crawling services, various partnerships, grants, donations. Its headquarters are in San Francisco, California, where about 30 of its 200 employees work, Most of its staff work in its book-scanning centers. The Archive has data centers in three Californian cities, San Francisco, Redwood City, and Richmond, the Archive is a member of the International Internet Preservation Consortium and was officially designated as a library by the State of California in 2007. Brewster Kahle founded the Archive in 1996 at around the time that he began the for-profit web crawling company Alexa Internet. In October 1996, the Internet Archive had begun to archive and preserve the World Wide Web in large quantities, the archived content wasnt available to the general public until 2001, when it developed the Wayback Machine. In late 1999, the Archive expanded its collections beyond the Web archive, Now the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software. It hosts a number of projects, the NASA Images Archive, the contract crawling service Archive-It. According to its web site, Most societies place importance on preserving artifacts of their culture, without such artifacts, civilization has no memory and no mechanism to learn from its successes and failures. Our culture now produces more and more artifacts in digital form, the Archives mission is to help preserve those artifacts and create an Internet library for researchers, historians, and scholars. In August 2012, the Archive announced that it has added BitTorrent to its file download options for over 1.3 million existing files, on November 6,2013, the Internet Archives headquarters in San Franciscos Richmond District caught fire, destroying equipment and damaging some nearby apartments. The nonprofit Archive sought donations to cover the estimated $600,000 in damage, in November 2016, Kahle announced that the Internet Archive was building the Internet Archive of Canada, a copy of the archive to be based somewhere in the country of Canada. The announcement received widespread coverage due to the implication that the decision to build an archive in a foreign country was because of the upcoming presidency of Donald Trump. Kahle was quoted as saying that on November 9th in America and it was a firm reminder that institutions like ours, built for the long-term, need to design for change. For us, it means keeping our cultural materials safe, private and it means preparing for a Web that may face greater restrictions

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The Committee on Credentials
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The Committee on Credentials is a 1916 American silent film featuring Harry Carey. It is based on the novel The Pride of Palomar by Peter Bernard Kyne and it follows the protagonist Ballrat Bob, who tries to protect an acquaintance and squatter, Clem, from gambling away all of his money. In an attempt to protect the welfare of Clems wife, Ballrat Bob takes Clems savings and this causes Clem to think his wife is having an affair, he goes on to shoot up the town and eventually ends up in a confrontation with Bob. Kyne said of his novel, I have at last finished writing The Pride of Palomar, of the silent films in the early 20th century, Peter French says calls it a dramatic tale of personal crimes, moral tales, and the place of crime in public life. Harry Carey George Berrell Neal Hart Joe Rickson Olive Carey Elizabeth Janes List of American films of 1916 Harry Carey filmography The Committee on Credentials at the Internet Movie Database